Rep. Chip RoyCompte certifié

1) My @HouseDemocrats colleagues have utterly failed to provide compelling evidence of a high crime and misdemeanor meriting the impeachment of a president.

2) I am different from my Republican colleagues in that I believe there was a "quid pro quo," but not for political reasons, as my Democratic colleagues continue to claim. Rather it was about corruption, which Trump had justifiable reasons to inquire about corruption in Ukraine.

The president clearly wanted Zelensky to act in the form of investigations and to demonstrate he would be different from past Ukrainian leaders in combating corruption. Ukraine is one of the most corrupt nations on earth. No one disputes that.

Ensuring the new administration headed by an anti-corruption candidate is routing out corruption in a country the U.S. sends hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars is in our interests. Period.

Trump had several reasons to raise corruption: - Ukrainian leaders publicly attacked candidate Trump - Others made open efforts to promote candidate Hillary Clinton - Ukrainian court found evidence Ukrainian officials interfered (later overturned) Then there's the Bidens...

3) Reference to Biden on the call was never about “digging up dirt” on a political opponent. Not one witness has yet provided direct evidence that the president targeted former vice president Biden or his son specifically and/or solely for political reasons involving 2020.

The call could have been word-for-word the same even if Biden were not running for president, and if the name Biden had not been mentioned, the president’s comments would have been an unremarkable call for a crackdown on corruption in Ukraine --receiving $100s millions taxpayer $